Eucla - Western Australia

	Eucla WA 6443
	Population: 90, Height above sea level: 95m Latitude: 31.4800, Longitude: 128.5500 Location: 1,440km east of Perth Highway: Eyre Hwy Nearest Major Town: Esperance Nearest Airport: Ceduna Touring Area: WA - Goldfields Esperance
Located only 11km from the South Australian border it is the most easterly town in Western Australia. It was an important repeater station on the Perth to Adelaide Telegraph Line when it opened in 1877 and was gazetted as a town in 1885. Its proximity to the Great Australian Bight resulted in a jetty and connecting tramline being built to service a new sea port. In 1929 a new telegraph line was built further north along the Trans-Australia Railway Line and the Telegraph Station became redundant. The ruins are now a local tourist attraction and some of the headstones of pioneer farmers and linesmen can now be seen in the Eucla Museum. In the 1980s sand drifts encroached on the original townsite and it was abandoned and rebuilt 5km to the east on higher ground. It is the largest centre along the highway bwtween Ceduna and Norseman has a hotel, accommodation, restaurant, roadhouse, museum, and even a golf course. Eucla reached international fame when photos of a semi naked blonde girl were seen and were said to be of a wild girl gone bush and known locally as the 'Nullarbor Nymph'. It proved to be a publicity stunt by locals to promote the area and certainly achieved that.

My German friend Edel on one of her
many visits to explore Australia.